Re: [idn] Report from the ACE design team

[Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>]

At/À 20:18 2001-06-26 -0700, Kenneth Whistler you wrote/vous écriviez:
>Soobok Lee wrote:
>
> > I believe long natural sentence/phrase domains escape your arguments.
> >
> > In CJK, "What is the nearest macdonald hamberger shop from 
> here?".(kr|cn|jp|tw)
>
>??
>
>Why would someone want to type in:
>
>"konomawariniwaichibanchikaimakudonarudohambaaganomisewadokodeshooka.co.jp"


Sorry Ken, but your argument of long-names-will-not-be-used does not stand. 
In the .com zone file, there is _already_ some labels which are 63 
characters long.  So even in english, there is a use (that one can 
question, but...) of all space available.  The idn tax that give us ~ 20 
chars max for some scripts is already a big tax compared to what is 
available and _used_ in all ascii labels.  To me, the best compression we 
can get is the best, (without necessarily forgetting the complexity).

Marc.




>when they could go to
>
>mcdonalds.co.jp
>
>click on the "zenkoku no mise listo" (List of all stores in the country)
>button on the home page and get the same results?
>
>If people wanted to do creative PR marketing, they could create
>
>my-makudonarudo.co.jp  (with "makudonarudo" in Katakana, if you like)
>
>and have the custom site *remember* where you live and which restaurant
>you like to go to nearby.
>
>Maybe movie names or band names, and stuff like that -- sure. Marketers
>love that stuff.
>
> > domain
> > may  raise interests and easier to remember and that was not possible
> > with LDH domains  for CJK peoples.
>
>Yes, but use of excessively long natural phrase domains like this is just
>misuse of what domain names should be for, in my opinion, and will be
>quickly outcompeted by more effective ways to get people to visit your
>sites and get the information or whatever else they are looking for.
>
>--Ken
>
> >
> > .kr .cn .jp domain suffices may be omitted in future localized web 
> browsers, and
> > it will make japanese and chinese sentence domains good for PR marketing.
> >
> > I think it is safe for us to leave much rooms for these creative naming
> > conventions
> > in our ACE proposals for the future.